Marzouki: US military considered intervention in 2012 http://betiforexcom.livejournal.com/26832970.html Tunisia’s former president, Moncef Marzouki has said US military intervention was avoided when Tunisia’s presidential guard managed to prevent protesters from attacking the US ambassador and staff in an attack in 2012. Speaking in an interview with Al Jazeera, Marzouki explained how the embassy attack took place three days after the murder of the US ambassador to Libya Christopher…

Russia’s Real Endgame http://betiforexcom.livejournal.com/26746905.html Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning,Russia’s Putin has never taken his eye off the ball. His ambition is not global hegemony or European conquest. Putin seeks what Russia has always sought: regional hegemony and a set of buffer states in eastern Europe and central Asia that can add to Russia’s strategic depth.It is strategic depth - the capacity to suffer massive invasions and still survive due to an…

Chilcot Inquiry: Iraq war unnecessary, military action not last resort: A long-delayed inquiry into Britain’s role in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq has offered a scathing critique of the military intervention, slamming former British prime minister Tony Blair for being too eager to support then US president George W. Bush. The circumstances in which the UK decided that there was a legal basis for military action were “far from satisfactory,” it says.